Oral

There are numerous strategies that are currently being used by health professionals to promote and protect the health of our youth. Childhood overweight and obesity are major problems for U.S. children and young adults and are associated with a host of disabilities and illnesses, including diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular diseases, stroke, and cancer. This session will include presentations on a family-centered healthy lifestyle program and a health promotion program for uninsured children. Another presentation included in this session will discuss the impact of legislative policy changes on smoking status among youth.

Session Objectives: At the end of the session, the participant will be able to: (1) Identify the youth access restrictions and clean indoor air laws that impact youth cigarette smoking status; (2) Identify differences in concussion prevention attitudes and behaviors between high school coaches who had used the CDC concussion education tool kit and those who had not; and (3) discuss ways in which local data can be gathered, shared, and used to mobilize communities addressing childhood overweight.